Ninja Tables <= 5.2.16 — Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
CVE-2026-86612Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤5.2.16Update to 5.2.17 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium6.5
- CVSS
- 6.5CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- 0.3% chance in 30 days18th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Ninja Tables – Responsive Table Builder for Data, Pricing & Product Tables ninja-tables
- Affected≤ 5.2.16
- Patched in5.2.17
Update to 5.2.17 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 5.2.16. Version 5.2.17 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Ninja Tables – Responsive Table Builder for Data, Pricing & Product Tables.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 5.2.17, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Ninja Tables – Responsive Table Builder for Data, Pricing & Product Tables to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Jakub Herman.
The Ninja Tables plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary Shortcode Execution in all versions up to, and including, 5.2.16. This is due to the use of do_shortcode() on user supplied input. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes registered on the site. The impact depends on which shortcodes the site has registered, so a site running a plugin whose shortcodes expose data or perform actions is affected more severely.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in Ninja Tables – Responsive Table Builder for Data, Pricing & Product Tables
All 16| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤5.2.9Update to 5.2.10 | CVE-2026-61964 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Information Exposure ≤5.2.10Update to 5.2.11 | CVE-2026-65474 | |
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Table Creation ≤5.2.6Update to 5.2.7 | CVE-2026-2306 | |
| Medium4.3 | Authenticated (Contributor+) Information Exposure ≤5.2.5Update to 5.2.6 | CVE-2026-25008 | |
| Medium6.5 | Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection ≤5.2.4Update to 5.2.5 | CVE-2025-69351 |
- High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤5.2.9Update to 5.2.10
- Medium5.3Unauthenticated Information Exposure
≤5.2.10Update to 5.2.11
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Table Creation
≤5.2.6Update to 5.2.7
- Medium4.3Authenticated (Contributor+) Information Exposure
≤5.2.5Update to 5.2.6
- Medium6.5Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection
≤5.2.4Update to 5.2.5
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 6.5
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- EPSS
- Exploit Prediction Scoring System by FIRST.org.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.
